API SIG Blog

More links added to the “Websites and web articles on APIs” page.

• Five Questions Every Technical Writer Faces with API Documentation [Ed Marshall]
• 7 items no API documentation can live without
• Should I use tools that support the OpenAPI Specification? [TechTarget]
• APIs You Won’t Hate [blog]
• API Evangelist [blog]
• How to manage and grow your REST API without blowing it up
• WeWork API Specification Workflow
• Public API Strategies — What Bezos didn’t tell his team

Mostly focused on development, but useful reading. https://blog.apisyouwonthate.com/

The following links have been added today (April 28, 2019).

• Under API References:Creating APIs: Haufe API Style Guide
• Updates to API documentation courses— additional information on Tom Johnson’s courses.

I have found the monthly newsletter from the folks at RapidAPI to be interesting and useful.

Their site lists a large number of APIs and related tools for your consideration.

Here are the presentations and courses on API documentation planned for the 2019 Summit.  Check out the Summit Schedule page for more details.

• API Documentation workshop by Tom Johnson [Full day (8-5) workshop on Sunday May 5. Extra fee.]
• xAPI: Geek Free Introduction for Instructional Designers, by Megan Torrance [Monday 2pm]
• Introduction to API Documentation by Tom Johnson [Tuesday 10am]

There are two other presentations that will probably be of interest to folks documenting APIs:

• Automated Release Notes, by Michael Winslow [Monday 4pm]
• Release Notes Matter!, by Swapnil Ogale [Tuesday 4pm]